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Trouble had been brewing for the past six months-ever since Aubrey L. Ashby (class of '08) had taken over as president. Brush-mustached, cigar-puffing Aubrey Ashby, 62, onetime vice president of the National Broadcasting Co., didn't like anything that had been happening under his last two predecessors. Olivet (enrollment: 287) had earned quite a reputation as a progressive college with a highly literary flavor and a strong political bent. As far as Ashby was concerned, the place was a hotbed of socialists, pacifists, and foggy-minded liberals...
Died. Sir C. (for Charles) Aubrey Smith, 85, hawk-nosed, patrician stage & screen character actor (Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Four Feathers, Lloyds of London); in Beverly Hills, Calif. A onetime champion cricketer, Smith never gave up his British citizenship in more than 20 years in the U.S., was knighted...
Olivet College's President Aubrey L. Ashby's action in ridding himself of thorny Barton Akeley [TIME, Oct. 18], is to be commended . . . Watchdogs of the American intellect are no doubt waiting eagerly for his next step...
...they were historical characters stepping out of a book of Roosevelt memoirs. Among them: Francis Biddle, Frank C. Walker, Dean Acheson, Thurman Arnold, Adolf Berle, Tommy ("the Cork") Corcoran, Wayne Coy, Elmer Davis, Leon Henderson, Archibald MacLeish, Paul A. Porter, Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, Robert E. Sherwood, Aubrey Williams. A fortnight ago in Paris, U.N. Delegate Eleanor Roosevelt, who had been noticeably silent on presidential politics, took pen in hand and sent a letter to President Truman (published last week by the White House): "I am unqualifiedly for you as the Democratic candidate...
Olivet had a brand-new president, cigar-puffing Aubrey L. Ashby, 62, a onetime vice president and general counsel of NBC, and no man to tolerate academic nonsense. He had grave doubts about Olivet's tutorial system, in which Akeley had been a leader. Said he: "A college is like a business-plus . . . When you defy constituted authority, all you have left is anarchy. Student expression has been allowed to run wild here over a period of years. We're not against student expression, but it must run through channels." And faculty critics were worse...